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.NET Design Patterns
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.NET Design Patterns

by Praseed Pai, Shine Xavier
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
6h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Concurrent versus parallel

These are two key constructs are often confused by developers, and warrant clear demystification. The authors strongly feel that a thorough understanding of this distinction holds the key to effective software design for achieving more by effective utilization of the available infrastructure (processors, cores, hardware, and software threads). Let's start with the classical definition by Rob Pike (inventor of the Go programming language), and try to decode its meaning.

 

Parallelization is doing multiple tasks (related or non-related) at the same time whereas concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Concurrency is about structure; parallelism is about execution. Concurrency provides a way to structure ...

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